Thursday, May 11, 2017

Almost 200 parking spaces to be removed from Queens Blvd

The city’s plan to redesign a 1.3-mile portion of Queens Boulevard in Rego Park and Forest Hills includes the addition of bike lanes and stop-controlled slip lanes, while eliminating 198 parking spaces, according to a proposal presented to the Community Board 6 Transportation Committee earlier this month.

The section of Queens Boulevard between Eliot Avenue and Yellowstone Boulevard includes some of the busiest and most crash-prone intersections in the neighborhood, including at 63rd Drive.

The proposed redesign, which will also include fixes such as adding extra space for pedestrians and installing gravel curb extensions to shorten crossing distances at several intersection, seeks to make the thoroughfare safer for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists alike, the Department of Transportation said.

19 comments:

Gary W
said...

Gov't planning at it's finest. Just like in the old Soviet States. 200 f'ing spaces gone just like that. As for the residents and businesses? Oh well too bad comrade. Just keep voting a straight party line.

Remember when roadways consisted merely of pavement, some sensible lane markings and the occasional, traffic sign and signal light? Today there are more pavement markings on a 50 ft stretch of Queens Boulevard than there are on an airport taxiway.

What an asinine idea. This must have been thought up by the same morons who narrowed a very busy section of Main Street to a single lane with NO left turn lane, painting the right lane red for buses only. Bikes are a serious distraction, and if they should swerve into a car lane, it would be a disaster. Businesses spend fortunes on rent for storefronts on Queens Blvd.--should an already terrible parking space shortage be greatly aggravated by a dumb plan like this? What will this do to those businesses' bottom line? This sounds like a page from DeDumDum's commie agenda.

As typical for this disfunctional city, commutes for folks who don't have the relatively easy access of subway travel is going to be made even worse.

Woe to you if you have to take a bus to get to and from work. While the city eliminates more travel lanes, you would think some thought would go into rerouting buses AWAY from using Queens Boulevard altogether.

If you take an Uber a few miles to the subway it would cost you about $10 a day a 5 days a week. That's $200 a month. It would cost $400 to do this both ways.

Your numbers are off. First of all, an Uber trip is volume dependent. Surge pricing would push up that $10 estimate, and leaves no option to run small errands. Secondly, the commuter would need Uber both coming and going, so double that projected amount. Finally, for the commute you are describing, gas would be minimal, and collision only insurance plus routine maintenance would probably be at close to half of what you quoted unless the car is practically falling apart.

" Bikes are a serious distraction, and if they should swerve into a car lane, it would be a disaster."The idea that this person is likely licensed to drive a two ton machine is pretty scary.

Unfortunately, there is no bicycle riding license or training required, unlike drivers of cars. Defensive driving dictates that drivers must keep an eye on situations which could happen, such as that child playing with a ball up ahead might dash into the street, or a bike weaving back and forth in the bike lane could go over the line and end up right in front of you. Do drivers need additional situations to have to worry about? All this, for the 3 people ever seen using those bike lanes.

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